Quotes About Perspective

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.

Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis.

...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?

He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.

They say you're meant to live everyday as if it were your last, which I've always thought was daft, since no one would ever pay the gas bill if that was the case, but what if it were your first?

How incredibly far our lives drift from where we knew with all certainty they would go. How little today resembles what yesterday thought it would look like.

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

It's amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life.

Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.

I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine.

Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.

I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfaction in life is difficult. Maybe being happy is as simple as not being unhappy.

It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.

I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom.

I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.

I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.

I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.

Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.

You are always a little bit wrong